Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 2 | A private operator won the first five franchises , but after that , the state company S J won all but one of the remaining sixteen . |
| 3 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 4 | Members of the Committee of Arab Local Councils announced on Oct. 2 that they would form a political party to contest the next parliamentary elections . |
| 5 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 6 | ‘ He had a role , but he kept going from character to character , using a whole lot of different accents , cockney one moment , the voice of a high court judge the next . ’ |
| 7 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |
| 8 | Historical data from a German parish spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shows that the wealthiest farmers preserved more males but the poorest labourers more females than the wealthiest farmers . |
| 9 | Assurances that a new era was underway were made at a civic banquet to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the People 's Republic . |
| 10 | A sudden noise from the cupboard followed by a distinct clucking distracted the next Lady Deverill 's attention . |
| 11 | When you reach a signpost saying White Creek and Arnside , cross the broken wall , turn left and soon you emerge onto a grassy clearing giving a first class view onto the sands — and no wood ants ! |
| 12 | You never get a second chance to make a first impression . |
| 13 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 14 | The popularity of this novel has been linked to its didacticism : a second edition followed the next year . |
| 15 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 16 | And in that desperate last set , McEnroe survived the strongest test yet on his self-imposed code of conduct when a dubious ace saved the third match point he held on Sanchez 's serve . |
| 17 | SWINDLE : a lucky victory where a player in a lost position sets a last trap which his opponent falls into . |
| 18 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 19 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 20 | If we are to pay out a large sum to cover the last cargo there must be some corroboration . |
| 21 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 22 | Here , Mr. Christopher Lawrence-Price had kindly lent his charming first floor flat to Miss Deborah Bennett , to give a little party to celebrate the fifth year of successfully working on her own in marketing and public relations . |
| 23 | The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match . |
| 24 | The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match . |
| 25 | MARTIN PIPE 'S Chatam was yesterday the subject of a major gamble to land a second successive Hennessy Gold Cup on Saturday week . |
| 26 | Ian Shiels , the non playing team organiser explained that ‘ New players have recently joined which gives us a better opportunity to reach the second division . ’ |
| 27 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 28 | After the first ascent by a six-year-old schoolgirl comes the first junkie-ascent of Europe 's biggest ( not counting Eastern interlopers ) . |
| 29 | The 36-year-old American is unlikely ever again to have such a good chance to lift a 10th title , with Monica Seles absent and Graf out of the way until at least the final . |
| 30 | It is a good touch to have the first two cards the ones your ‘ opponent ’ turned over . |